Met Museum Reimagines the Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Hyperallergic examines the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Afrofuturist period room, which combines historical objects with contemporary work by Black artists and designers. The installation imagines descendants of Seneca Village’s displaced residents, bringing different eras into one domestic setting while reconsidering whose histories traditional museum rooms represent.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Valentina Di Liscia. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.